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13 July 2009 12:14pm
Has anyone had any good experiences or can recommend any image zooming services - I'm looking for an alternative to Scene 7!
Any suggestion needs to be good enough to operate on a significantly sized website - for a big retailer - range in excess of 20,000 products.
thanks!
Technical Project Manager (MBA, MBCS, CITP, CEng) at Naxtech.com
13 July 2009 14:48pm
I do not know of particular zooming service to recommend, but if it is only zooming you are interested we are able to make custom css/javascript code to handle that kind of thing, and for even 100K products.
Other types of functionality can also be dealth with using custom code. For an example see: http://www.touratzis.gr/en/showroom-floor-ChooseFloor.html I am sure you will find it very interesting.
I hope this helps.
regards,
Denis
www.naxtech.com - web development and online marketing specialists
Managing Director at Mr Monkey Limited
14 July 2009 08:28am
The best zoom tool for your needs is probably Magic Touch:
http://www.magictoolbox.com/magictouch/
Dramatically more affordable than Scene7 and with more features and easier integration.
(I am a co-founder of Magic Toolbox).
Jake
Technical Project Manager (MBA, MBCS, CITP, CEng) at Naxtech.com
14 July 2009 12:20pm
Jake, I think it will still not be cheap with 20K products (ie. several dozens of zoom-views per month, depending on how popular the siteand products are). It would come out to be at least about £1000/year which would be an ongoing cost.
As custom developed functionality it would be a one-off cost with nothing else to pay monthly or annually.
In my view, doing it as a custom-made piece of functionality would be cheaper, all the functionality would be centralised in one place and most of all, it would be part of the actual site and as such within the ownership of the business.
regards,
Denis
www.naxtech.com - web development and online marketing specialists
Managing Director at Mr Monkey Limited
14 July 2009 12:50pm
Different ways to skin a cat.
Functionality like this is hard to get right. For a high traffic site you can opt for Scene7 and pay £x'000s per month. Or use Magic Touch and pay perhaps £100 per month. Or build a system yourself but make sure you know what you are getting yourself in for!
http://www.magictoolbox.com/magictouch/
Jake
(p.s. URL posted again as it wasn't rendered first time).
Technical Project Manager (MBA, MBCS, CITP, CEng) at Naxtech.com
14 July 2009 14:12pm
No "system building" required I think. Just a little css/javascript will do the job! But if you want it in Flash then that's a different story. It all comes down to the little details of how you want to zooming to work exactly.
regards,
Denis
www.naxtech.com - web development and online marketing specialists
Managing Director at Mr Monkey Limited
14 July 2009 15:16pm
You need more than CSS and JavaScript. Magic Touch works like Google Maps - it takes huge images and creates thousands of image tiles. These are called depending on where the user zooms. This means it downloads fast, no matter how big the image or how far you zoom into it.
A more basic zoom, can be achieved with just CSS and JavaScript. It depends what the goal is.
Marketing and Sales Manager at WMpS (Web Marketplace Solutions)
14 July 2009 16:48pm
We have an image zoom product that we created in-house for large etailers. We created the "I-Zoom" trademarked product to help etailers present their products more like they would in their high street stores. Our product I-Zoom gives great quality, no download delay, separate positioning window to aid with usability, large display windows to accommodate more detail, and much more. It’s been tried and tested with Blue Chips clients seeing likelihood to purchase raised by up to 50%. This is a perfect solutions if you have 10,000 or more products. Would love to discuss futher, feel free to be in touch, or 01482 871846 x7021. Thanks!